NL50: Critique my reasoning

[LordTacohead]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (5 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

BB ($52.20)
UTG ($6.20)
MP ($19.25)
Hero ($83.05)
SB ($72.05)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $2</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to $7.5</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls $5.50.

Flop: ($15.50) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks.

Turn: ($15.50) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: ($15.50) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets $11</font>, Hero calls $11.

Final Pot: $37.50

Villain wasn't especially aggro preflop, so I called thinking I could stack him if I hit a set. Flop comes lousy, but he checks. It's unlikely that he has AK, since I doubt anyone would slowplay in that spot, so I'm thinking he's probably donking it up with aces, slowplaying kings or queens, or maybe playing scared with jacks.

On the turn I hit my boat, but I think this is a spot where it's better to induce a bet than bet yourself, so I check behind. He bets the river, and I call because I'm not going to get value out of raising.

Thoughts? Folding preflop is an option, but from there the hand plays itself out, no?

[Jshuttlesworth]

sooo many hands call all day on the river... AJ for instance.

[LordTacohead]

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sooo many hands call all day on the river... AJ for instance.

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I'm not really sure what you're saying. Are you suggesting that I raise the river? At any rate, my impression of villain was that he wasn't raising enough for a hand like AJs to be a likely possibility here.

[Nonfiction]

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sooo many hands call all day on the river... AJ for instance.

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I'm not really sure what you're saying. Are you suggesting that I raise the river? At any rate, my impression of villain was that he wasn't raising enough for a hand like AJs to be a likely possibility here.

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Why would you not raise this? I mean seriously?

[KurtSF]

Jeez, I bet the turn.

I beat AA, AK, AQ, AJ, JJ, TT, 99. Lose to KK, QQ (one), and KQ. I think we're were way ahead of his range. And there's no way he's expecting 66, so a bet on the turn doesn't telegraph anything. Maybe I'm a donkey but there's no way I'm checking with a boat when AA is so often happy to give me his chips.

[grouchie]

To me, your river call says "i'm afraid he has KK or QQ, but I have to see"

[holyfield5]

it is incredibly horrible to call this river and not push.....wow man, wow.

[Smilin']

If you'd been betting all along, calling the river would seem better. But it's been checked through twice, so you're both saying you don't have much of anything. A raise from you could look like you're trying to push him off a bluff (and you don't have much either)--I think worse hands often call.

[bsheck]

I don't think it's so bad. The only hand you get value out of by raising is AQ if he'll even reraise with that hand.

[ADK]

im betting that turn and raising that river